John Harrison and his brother James were introduced to clock repair by their father, Henry. Clock making, or horology, was undergoing a developmental revolution. Mechanical clocks had existed since the fourteenth century. They remained rather primitive...

English clockmaker and carpenter John Harrison solved the so-called "longitude problem," that is, he developed the means to enable navigators to calculate their east-west (longitudinal) positions at sea. A ship's north-south...

1693-1776 English Horologist Perhaps the most famous clockmaker of all time, John Harrison solved the problem of reliably calculating a ship's longitude while at sea. By designing a highly accurate clock that allowed mariners to chart their...

John Harrison (24 March 1693 – 24 March 1776) was an English clockmaker who revolutionised and extended the possibility of safe long distance sea travel in the Age of Sail by inventing a long-sought and critically-needed key piece in the problem...

John Harrison, journalist: born Aldershot 24 January 1946; New York Correspondent, Daily Express 1972-74; Political Correspondent, Daily Mail 1974-83; Political and Foreign News Journalist, BBC 1983- 94 (Southern Africa Correspondent 1991-94); Royal Television Society Award 1983; married (two sons); died Mmabatho, South Africa 9...

JOHN LANCHBERY London-born John Lanchbery, who died in Melbourne, Australia, February 27, 2003, at age 79, was one of the best-known ballet conductors of the twentieth-century. More significantly, he was among the finest arrangers and orchestrators of ballet scores that dance has...

Two names are listed as the seller of a $5.35 million triplex penthouse at 597 Broadway, but they belong to one person: 33-year-old Sunshine Megatron, who legally changed his name last year from Aaron L. Schwarz after holding an online christening competition. The unkempt Megatron...